Jeremiah 6:29 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. ”

• Jeremiah 6:29 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The bellows are burned - Worn out by continual blowing. The prophet has exhausted all his efforts. His heart, consumed by the heat of divine inspiration, can labor no more. Others translate “The...

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  The (x) bellows is burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. (x) All the pain and labour that has been taken with them is lost.

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Prophet's Task. The record of earlier prophecies ( Jeremiah 6:1-6 ) fitly closes with the application to the prophet of the figure of the trier ( mg. ) or assayer; so inextricably is the alloy...

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  founder melteth . refiner refineth.

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  He says, that the bellows was consumed by the fire and without any advantage. The whole sentence is metaphorical. Interpreters refer it simply to what was taught; and hence they consider...

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  I have set thee for a tower, &c.— The prophet in these verses evidently takes his ideas from metals, and the trial of them; and the verbs in the latter clause of this verse, referring to such t...

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. The bellows are burned - so intense a heat is made that the very be...

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1-8. The hostile army approaches.

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The bellows are burned. — Better, burn, or glow. In the interpretation of the parable the “bellows” answer to the life of the prophet as filled with the breath or spirit of Jehovah. He is, as i...

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Jeremiah 5:1-31 ; Jeremiah 6:1-30 CHAPTER IV THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30 IF we would understand what is written here and elsewhere in the pages of p...

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  This judgment the prophet now described. A fierce and relentless foe, acting under the word of Jehovah, is described as coming up against Jerusalem. The prophet declared that the city would be taken,...

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The last of these verses throws a light on the whole passage, by way of explanation, on the principles of the gospel of Christ. All men are as reprobate silver, until the Great Refiner and Purifier o...

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The bellows are burnt ,.... Which Kimchi interprets of the mouth and throat of the prophet, which, through reproving the people, were dried up, and become raucous and hoarse, and without any profit...

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. Ver. 29. The bellows are burnt. ] The prophet's lungs are spent; all the...

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  They are all grievous revolters Obstinate and refractory; walking with slanders Making it their business to detract from thee and the other prophets. Blaney translates the clause, They are all o...

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Equity of Divine Judgments; Punishment Predicted. B. C. 608.       18 Therefore hear, ye nat...

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The bellows are burned: the prophet prosecutes his metaphor taken from refining of metals, intimating herein that the prophets had spent their lungs to no purpose; see the like Psalms 22:15 , Ps...

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  In View Of Judah's Failure To Respond To His Warnings YHWH Stresses That The Invasion Is Now Imminent ( Jeremiah 6:1-30 ). Chapter 4 had predicted that invasion was coming, and chapter 5 had given...

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES . —1. Chronological and Historical position of this chapter the same . (Comp. notes on 3, 4, 5.) 2. Geographical References. — Jeremiah 6:1 . “ Tekoa: ” a small town...

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Jeremiah 6:1 . Oh ye children of Benjamin flee out of the midst of Jerusalem. Many of this tribe lived in the city. Blow the trumpet [of alarm] in Tekoa, a village twelve miles from Jerusalem,...

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The bellows are burnt. The bellows burnt Apply to-- I. The prophet himself. The prophet was exhausted before the people were impressed. So also with Noah, Isaiah, John the Baptist, Jesus Him...

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION A prophecy, in five stanzas or strophes, vividly describing the judgment and its causes, and enforcing the necessity of repentance. Jeremiah 6:1-24 Arrival of a hostile army fro...

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Impending Judgment Announced

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 1:7 ; 1 Peter 4:12 ; Ezekiel 24:13 ; Hosea 11:7 ; Isaiah 49:4 ; Jeremiah 9:7 ; Malachi 3:2 ; Malachi 3:3 ; Proverbs 17:3 ; Zechariah 13:9

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• Jeremiah 6:29 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The bellows — The prophet prosecutes his metaphor taken from refining of metals, intimating, that the prophets had spent their breath to no purpose, and their strength was consumed by their labour....

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